1920-1945 The Artistic Culture between the Wars

Hardback

Main Details

Title 1920-1945 The Artistic Culture between the Wars
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Valerio Terraroli
SeriesArt of the Twentieth Century
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:448
Dimensions(mm): Height 280,Width 210
Category/GenreArt and design styles - c 1900 to c 1960
ISBN/Barcode 9788876248047
ClassificationsDewey:709.04
Audience
General
Illustrations Illustrated in colour throughout

Publishing Details

Publisher Skira
Imprint Skira
Publication Date 24 September 2007
Publication Country Italy

Description

This series offers a complete, up-to-date survey of the phenomena of the 1900s and the first years of the new millennium through an original, transversal and interdisciplinary analysis of artistic culture in the twentieth century. The second volume analyses and presents the hugely diverse world of artistic production between the two world wars, taking into consideration not only the environment that took shape in the immediate wake of the First World War, from the so-called "return to order" to the re-emergence of a figurative approach (The New Objectivity, Novecento Italiano, Magic Realism) that was profoundly anti-avant-garde yet imbued with strong plastic and semantic values, but also the evolution of an avant-garde that was now historicised, with its second-generation artists (Aerial Painting, the second generation of Futurism). Also considered are the codification of certain phenomena, such as Surrealism, changes in taste (from Art Deco to Novecentismo), as well as art as the expression of the totalitarian regimes, and the outbreak of the Second World War, with the embracing of environments outside Europe, particularly the USA. The chronological boundaries are marked by the birth of the Dadaist experience in Germany and the establishment of Metaphysics in Italy (1917- 1920) on one side and by the birth of the great season of U.S. Abstract Expressionism (1943-1945) on the other.

Author Biography

Valerio Terraroli is professor of History of Contemporary Art and History of Modern Decorative Arts at the University of Turin. He is the author of numerous essays and volumes including the Skira Dictionary of Modern and Decorative Arts (2001) .